On October 31, local time, the famous British actor Sean Connery passed away at the age of 90.
Sean Connery's work has left a deep impression on countless Chinese audiences, and today I will talk to you about this actor, who has left the world with far more than "007".
On June 12, 1967, at the royal charity premiere of the fourth 007 film "Thunder Valley", Queen Elizabeth shook Sean Connery's hand and asked, "Is this really your last Bond movie?" "I'm afraid so, Your Majesty."
In fact, as early as the third film, Goldfinger (1964), Sean Connery was "bored and disappointed" with this virtual spy life of fighting, drag racing, explosions and flirting.
But by this time he was already riding a tiger, 007 as a cultural trend has spread all over the world, even his brother Neil, who works as a mason in his hometown, was invited to make a spy film "Brother's Mission" because of his appearance.
But Sean Connery is an actor and can't just live in the world of 007.
After entering the 70s, Sean participated in the "style trilogy", "Black Lion Trek", "The Man Who Could Have Been King", "Robin Hood and Marianne" all had a mediocre response, but after the 80s when Hollywood pursued high-concept films, he ushered in the second golden period of his career.
He won an Oscar for "Iron Mask Selflessness" (1987), followed by the "Holy War Raiders" (1989), "Pursuit of the Red October" (1990), and "Brave to the Island" (1996) and "The Trap of Stealing Heaven" (1999) that Chinese film fans loved.
Almost without exception, these successful characters are veteran tough guys with weapons of justice and convictions, who blend their innately hot character and male nature into this immortal myth, setting a benchmark for all the men of the earth to aspire to be.
One
Talking about the actor's body is a bit "vulgar", and there is some disrespect for Grandpa Connery in the distance. But to tell the truth, the body is indeed the biggest "capital" he can become a star.
Because of his body, he can be ranked among the famous British actors without training in the class; because of his body, he can still complete the good play of hanging Weia at a high altitude in his old age.
Sean Connery was born into a commoner family in the Springsbridge district of Edinburgh, Scotland, to parents who adopted a pungent free-range approach. He was not a good student since he was a child and was obsessed with skiing and soccer.
He began delivering milk part-time at the age of 14, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17, and after retiring from the army, he worked as a steel worker, road builder, handyman, mason, waiter, lifeguard, nightclub bodyguard and other physical work at the bottom of society.
Admittedly, these experiences have created his masculine physique. He knew that there was also a way to eat by the body, and that was to be a model.
He worked as a mannequin at the Edinburgh Academy of Arts, a 45-minute maneuver, a reward of seven shillings.
As a menswear photography model, he rides a motorcycle every week to take photos for the Vince Photography Studio.
Later, he became obsessed with fitness and began shooting covers for bodybuilding magazines. In 1953, Sean went to London to participate in the "Mr. Universe" competition, and won the third place in the lightweight, but the big men of the United States also gave him a big blow. "If it's too big, it means you can't run, you can't play football and you can't swim."
At that time, Sean had not yet moved the idea of becoming a professional actor, even though he had already been absorbed as a dragon set actor by the "South Pacific" song and dance troupe because of his strong body.
But it turns out that only the actor industry can always run and swim on the screen.
Later in his 007 career, Sean completed most of the action scenes with his natural physique, and in life, he fell in love with golf. It was an elegant sport that matched his star status more, and Sean, who was rich in athletic cells, soon became professional.
After entering the second golden age of the eighties and nineties, Sean Connery is still very strong, not like the grandfather actors who began to sit on the couch as soon as they passed the age of 55, but took one action scene after another.
When filming "The Sky Stealing Trap", Sean was 69 years old, and he was still hanging in a heavy night-time suit and personally filming drag racing scenes and diving scenes.
In 2006, at the age of 76, Sean Connery removed a tumor from his kidney, and family-inherited throat mucosal disease invaded him from time to time, but he still looked strong and strong, retaining the courage of Bond.
Two
Sean Connery is very attractive to women, he is sexy, and he is not the kind of little white face handsomeness. In the West, where he pays less attention to the face and more to the male breath, he can receive a wink from a woman every minute and every second. He's pretty convincing as Bond, otherwise why are there two women coming after him in every episode?
Sean's first big-name female star was Lana Turner, 1958's "Traces of Spring Dreams." Lana Turner, who loves tender grass, is said to like him very much, and as a result, he is jealous of his gangster boyfriend Stormana.
One day, Stormpana suddenly broke into the set and pointed a gun at the male and female protagonists who were acting. Sean grabbed the pistol with lightning speed and locked his wrist. It was all recorded on camera, and Sean laughed and said to the frightened director, "Is this paragraph still going to be cut?" ”
In 1965's Extreme Madness, Jane Seeberg played Sean's wife. Preparing to shoot a bathtub scene, Jane walks in in black underwear, obviously unable to let go. Sean whispered in director Owen Keshner's ear, "Please bring me a bottle of champagne and two glasses." Later, the male and female protagonists drank champagne alone, and by the time the crew was ready to shoot, Jane was completely naked.
These stories all validate the question Sean Connery answered in a 1965 interview with Playboy. "Do you have a good set of women?" Sean replied yes, admitting that he did have a lot of experience in this area, but he was never a womanizer.
It is true that Sean Connery has worked with many famous beauties, Audrey Hepburn, Claudia Cardinale, Brigitte Bardot, and the media will hype up seemingly innocent scandals every time, but every time he can control the romance within the camera, and never because of a play that has turned upside down.
In old age, Sean Connery's charm has not diminished, but has grown geometrically.
Young girls want to kiss his silver stubble and deep wrinkles, like Catherine Zeta-Jones in The Trap. "He's an icon for all women and I think he's more attractive than he was 30 years ago." Sean fulfills both her father-loving and idolatrous complexes. She later married Michael Douglas.
Three
It was that 1965 Playboy interview that allowed Sean Connery to tell the truth and brought about his biggest public relations crisis of all time.
"I don't think hitting women is a mistake, but I don't recommend hitting men." This is Sean Connery's exact words, "Although I don't recommend this practice, if other means or warnings end in failure, it is normal to give them a loud 'slap'." ”
In many reprinted articles, the phrase "give a woman a slap" is repeated repeatedly, and although Sean has repeatedly refuted this out-of-contextuality on different occasions, his confession has brought more unfavorable information.
No agent taught the British star to speak, but importantly, that's what he thought. Even though Sean wasn't as "rough" and "aggressive" as the media described it, he was really macho.
His first girlfriend, Carol Supal, a colleague of the South Pacific Cabaret Troupe, said that the first time he met Sean was a "idle and annoying rogue."
Sean's first wife, Diane Sito, was an acting partner and Sean's leather Marion, who taught him how to start acting from the Method, teaching him how to improve his state of mind with yoga.
After marriage, they entered the camp of "action stars" and "serious actors" respectively, with the wife seeing her husband's movies as commercial gimmicks, and the husbands being jealous of their wives' orthodox identities.
They managed to co-perform a play, but they couldn't change the relationship that went farther and farther, and one night in 1965, Sean finally "beat" her because she danced with another man at a banquet.
Apparently, what Sean Connery needed was a woman who could be with him at any time. He married again in 1975, and the bride, Michel Roquebrune, met at a golf tournament in Morocco, where they were the winners of the men's and women's divisions.
Sean Connery's irritability was revealed by a growing number of memoirs, and viewers realized that he was still somehow different from Bond. For example, Bond wouldn't mind coming out of the bathroom and being secretly filmed by paparazzi, Bond wouldn't hire a dedicated team to investigate books and articles about him, Bond wouldn't blackface reporters, and Bond wouldn't break his friends' clubs.
Once he taught Michael Kane to play golf, and the gist of the action was explained several times, and the latter could not master it, and Sean grabbed his club in one breath and folded it into two pieces.
Four
Maybe Sean Connery's irritable mood comes from genetics. His ancestors came from Ireland and immigrated to the Scottish Highlands, a land rich in indomitable people. Like Wallace, the leader of the uprising, Sean was never afraid of the powerful— or "aggressive."
In 1965, when he made "Extreme Madness," he took Warner's old version of Jack Warner to court because the producers refused to pay $50,000 in overtime; 10 years later, because of "The Man Who Could Have Been King", he took Lianmei to court because the latter refused to pay box office dividends according to the standards set out in the contract.
Sean was furious: "I've never lied to anyone else in my life, and I don't understand why people like me are being deceived and exploited." In the six years since, Sean has taken the initiative to fight many lawsuits, including not only several film companies, but also Brocory, the producer of 007 that year.
Sean Connery has been a Scottish independent since he was young. After joining the Scottish National Party in 1967, he supported proposals for the recovery of Scottish shipyards, funded the documentary "Top hats and short hats" for dock workers, and co-founded the Scottish International Education Fund, which he reneged on in 1971 to "re-be Bond" to shoot Diamond Diamonds, and he eventually donated all $1.25 million to the group.
Moreover, he has asked more than once for the films he starred in to be filmed in his native Scotland or have a charity premiere there. These radical acts directly affected the attitude of the British Cabinet towards him, and it was not until 2000, out of his artistic contributions, that the Queen knighted him.
In 2008, at the age of 78, Sean Connery presented his autobiography As a Scot at the Edinburgh Book Fair. And fans around the world believe that a man's sexiest costume, the Scottish dress, is so energetic whenever he wears it.
Five
Let's go back to the set of Tiger State in 1957, and as work was about to end, a kid ran up to director Terrance Young and humbly asked, "Sir, can this film bring me success?" ”
Yang didn't answer explicitly, he knew the film was smashed, but he was very optimistic about the boy named Sean Connery in front of him. "He's an unpolished diamond, full of wild power, like Bert Lancaster and Kirk Douglas." He owed him a success.
Four years later, when fiction writer Ian Fleming and producer Kirby Brockley approved Terrance Young as the director of the first episode, 007, Dr. No, he uttered a sentence that would determine history.
"Sean Connery, he has a good voice and, more importantly, he's very stylish when he comes out. I've only seen this trait in one person – Clark Gable. ”
At that time, Sean had already made a name for himself in the UK with the role of Vronsky in the TV movie "Anna Karenina", and although he was also included in bond's final audition list, he was not ranked high. It was Terence Young who chose him to be 007.
But Sean, 32, is still a rough man. From the way he spoke to the stride he walked, from the manners of using knives and forks to the treatment of high society, it was Terence Young who transformed him into the most standard English gentleman.
Young also took Sean to the famous Turnball & Asser clothing store to cut suits and make a suit that would not have pleats for a night's sleep. He injected his personality and hobbies, and even his attitude toward women, into Sean, and in a sense, it was Terrance Young who made Sean Connery the big star.
In the mid-'60s, when he was under pressure from playing 007 repeatedly, Sean met Sidney Lumet again. Lumet's "The Hill", which tells the story of an officer abusing prisoners of war in a North African barracks in World War II, and the prisoners of war will resist, is the kind of movie that can arouse the sense of honor and humiliation in the hearts of the grandfathers.
Perhaps in a similar mood, Sean was tempted to try out villains and play the role of a brutal commander, but lumet eventually persuaded him to play the leader of the uprising among prisoners of war.
During the shoot, Sean was impressed by Lumet's meticulousness and dedication as a director: "He never wasted time and small talk". There is a big scene that requires 350 soldiers as a background, and Lumet counts them one by one, and the number of people is not correct.
The play made the two good friends, and they collaborated on four more films — Anderson's Tapes, Crime, Murder on the Orient Express, and Family Business.
When "Family Business" was filmed in 1987, both people were old people in their fifties and sixties. For the old friends and old partners who have experienced the ups and downs of the stars and finally calmed down, Lumet at this time gave the most pertinent evaluation.
"He was really amazing. He has no vanity, so there's no need to worry about whether he's playing a hero or an asshole, he's the sexiest guy. ”